Page 22 RAIN July 1976 RANDOM RAIN 10-WEEK LOG RAIN is ~!ways asking people, "what's new?" Here's a little bit about what's new with RAIN. Bet you thought RAIN was just a magazine . ..' -Tom Bender participated in the planning c_ommittee meeting of the National Center for Appropria.te Technology of the Community Services Administratio11. -Lane de Moll prepared..an introductory source list on appropriate technology called "Coming Around." . -Anne McLaughlin, who sits on the boards of PACT (Portland Action Committees Together) and PMSC (Portland Metropolitan Steering Committee/Community Services Administration) and attends their weekly and monthly meetings, was elected to the board of the ,Creative Outlet (a multi-media space and community seryices umbrella). -Stev·e Johnson worked with the Portland Off~ce of Neighborhood Associations aµd the RAIN staff to hold a halfday seminar on Neighborhood SelfReliance and Economic Development at the Earth Tavern, featuring David Morris of the Institute for Local SelfReliance in Washington, DC. -Lane, Anne, and -Nancy Lee were on the planning committee of the Portland Conference on Community Strength, the first local follow-up meeting to the Leap Year Conference on Regional . Federation. -Rhoda Epstein prepared the directory and report on the Portland Community Conference and has recorded half a dozen other community meetings. -Lee Jol\nson and Ken Smith·of Eco- , tope Group conducted a solar hot water heater construction workshop for the South Central Community Action Project in Boise, Idaho. -Steve was·elected to the board of the Northwest District Association (our local neighborhood association). ., -Tom's self-published book, Environmental besign Primer (1973) was reissued by Shocken Press. -Lane and Lee did an energy/living lightly talk at Battleground High School in Battleground, Washington. -RAIN Magazine incorporated as The RAIN Umbrella, non-profit, educational ~rganization. -:-RAIN co-sponsored with Rodale Press and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry the 6th Annual ·composting and Waste Recycling Conference on "Recycling Human Waste" in Portland. -Jack Eyerly and RAIN consulted with each other. ABRIDGED VERSION -RAIN houseguests have included: David Morris, Institute for Local SelfReliance; Sim Van der Ryn, California State Architect and head of the Office of Appropriate Technology; Wilson Clark, author of Energy for Survival; Nancy Bell ·Coe, editor of Futures Conditional; Bill Press, director of California Office of Planning and Research and coordinator of Jerry Brown's Oregon campaign; Kye Cochran of AERO •(Alternate Energy Resources Organization); Mark Musick, Tilth; David Katz, Max Kroshel and Tom Javits of Farallones Institute, San,Francisco; Bruce Williamson of Denver, Colorado. - -Anne did bookkeeping for the local food co-op, Food Front, in exchange for active membership for RAIN. -Lee gave a slide-lecture on windpower at Portland Community College. -Toni gave a.talk on "Appropriate Tech-. nology" at Western Washington State College,in Bellingham. -Nancy, Steve and Hank Patton are working cm a teacher's handbook on whole systems education. .-Lee and Rhoda met with KGW-AM-TV to discuss doing community information spots (not public service announcements) of RAIN-like material. -Anne did layout for a newsletter for the Public Education and Research Council of Oregon (a family planning group). -Nancy worked on the Portland Scribe City Survival Page. -Steve is working on a map article 'for Harper's Weekly. • -Rhoda is working on a master's thesis for the Community Information Specialist Program, University of Toledo, Ohio·. -Anne gave blood to the Red Cross. -RAIN published two issues of RAIN. -RAIN was a recognized bicentennial project (no money),·one of 200 model projects called Horizons on Display, .AREA. -Steve and Rhoda worked with Brian Livingston •(of the Cascadian Regional Library in Eugene) to plan the 4th annual Cascadian Regional Media Conference-COM/PLEX, held over Memorial Day weekend in Bellingham, Wash. -Rhoda, Steve and Anne attended the 'conference and then went on to Vancouver B.C. and Habitat Forum. -Steve.was awarded the planning contract for APPLE (a people-to-people living exchange), a skill bank and information exchange for N.W. Portland, -:Lane gave a talk on "Portland as Ecotopia" at the Oregon Habitat Workshop at Portland Community Conference. -Tom gave a talk on "Resource Limits and Architecture" to the School of Architecture, University of Oregon, Eugene. -Lee and Ken conducted a solar hot water heater construction workshop for the Alternate Energy Resources in Billings, Montana. -Rhoda met with the Communications Group coming out of the Portland Community Conference. -Lane met with the-Finances Group coming out of ~he Portland Community Conference. -Steve and Rhoda gave a workshop on "Community Information Centers" at the Living Lightly Weekend Seminar in Seattle. -Tom and Lane began work as consultants to the California State Architect's Office and the Office of Appropriate Technology. -Steve prepared a slide show presentation on "Communication Participation" for Habitat Forum at the UN Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. -Tom and Lane gave a workshop on "Briarpatch Economics" at Mark Musick's Tools for Transition course at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. -Lee ·anc;i Ken conducted a solar hot water heater construction workshop for the Northern California Alternate Energy Conference at West Valley College in Saratoga_, California. -Tom prepared the resource flyer for the Appropriate Technology Exhibit at Habitat Foruµi. -°During KBOO Pledge Week Rhoda did a daily noon'time RAIN Community Information Exchange show (KBOO is a community radio station).
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